Alumnus George Bryan ('96, '98, '03) wins AMS Banner I. Miller Award

Congratulations to Meteorology alumnus and 2006 Penn State Alumni Achievement Awardee, George Bryan ('96, '98, '03), who has won the American Meteorological Society's Banner I. Miller Award along with Rich Rotunno, Assistant Director, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology at NCAR.

Congratulations to Meteorology alumnus and 2006 Penn State Alumni
Achievement Awardee, George Bryan ('96, '98, '03), who has won the
American Meteorological Society's Banner I. Miller Award along with
Rich Rotunno, Assistant Director, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology
at NCAR. George Bryan is a Scientist II n the Mesoscale and Microscale
Meteorology Division at NCAR.

Below is a brief description of the award and details about the paper written by George Bryan and Rich Rotunno courtesy of Roger Wakimoto.

BANNER I. MILLER AWARD

The Banner I. Miller Award is presented for an outstanding contribution
to the science of hurricane and tropical weather forecasting published
in a journal with international circulation during the 48 months prior
to the deadline for nominations (November 1). The award is to be
presented at each Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology,
and is based on the recommendation of the Committee on Tropical
Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones and the STAC Commissioner.

The paper was selected for the following reason: "In this paper, the
authors demonstrate that the intensity of numerically simulated
tropical cyclones is highly sensitive to the formulation and magnitude
of radial diffusion, a process that has been neglected in theoretical
treatments of maximum intensity and overlooked in diagnosing previous
numerical simulations. This paper explains a great many earlier
findings, such as the observation that numerically simulated storm
intensity often exceeds that given by extant maximum intensity theory.
It is proving useful to forecasters in their interpretation of the
maximum intensity that tropical cyclone could achieve, and has alerted
modelers to that fact that modeled storms may be exquisitely sensitive
to how turbulence is formulated."